An unidentified Brazilian man shows the scar after an illegal operation to remove his kidney in Durban, South Africa, in 2003. The phenomenon of illegal organ trafficking has now spread to Cambodia, police in the Asian country say..
PHNOM PENH: Two Cambodians have been arrested for allegedly trafficking at least ten organ donors to India for illegal kidney transplants worth tens of thousands of dollars, police said Friday.
The two Phnom Penh residents - a man and a woman - were arrested on Wednesday for at least ten cases of “kidney trafficking” over the past year, said Keo Thea, the city’s chief of anti-human trafficking police.
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